POTTER United Families

The addition of Gendebien to the Provisional Government had
coincided with the return of Louis young friend Tielemans from
Paris, on October 10.
Louis relates that Tielemans became a member of the Provisional
Government at that time, replacing Nicolai, who became a judge.
Early October had been the time of many decrees.
The decisive period' at least for Louis' programs' seems to have been
between October 7 and 10.
Louis declared that the judicial branch of the government was the
first thing that had to be reorganized, because it had been so
thoroughly controlled by the Dutch. He was upset at the way people
scurried after the new Belgian government.
The government's decrees of October affected many needed reforms:
the municipal police was better regulated; the lottery abolished;
freedom of association was assured; the secret police abolished; right
of public access to communal budgets and councils of war asserted;
and the right of the accused to a freely chosen legal counsel
confirmed.
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